Sr. Data Scientist

Mastercard•Toronto, ON

5d•CA$111,000 - CA$160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team is responsible for innovation, development and management of our products and services to address evolving risk and security needs for all of Mastercard’s customers across the world including Banks, Merchants, Fintechs and of course consumers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s/Accelerated Master’s Degree
Passion for Cybersecurity and profound interest in learning new tools, threat vectors, attack techniques, technologies, and best practices in preventing against cybersecurity incidents
Familiarity with cybersecurity landscape and major threats and trends that have garnered industry attention
Coursework in Applied Mathematics or Statistics
Data and analytics – understanding of statistical analysis predictive modeling, aptitude in displaying and communicating data analysis , and desire to conduct data-driven experiments and create data-driven products
Strong oral and written communication skills (presentations, publishing papers, blogs)
Self-starter with passion for solving problems
High energy level; flexible, adaptive and strong collaborator
Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively

Responsibilities

Work with our intelligence teams to identify new breach techniques, and build technology to scan, identify, and protect our customers.
Conduct analysis of transaction level data to develop new ways of detecting fraud
Build systems to be used by global banking networks to detect cyber attacks
Leverage AI models to provide automated transaction risk decisions